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MONTREAL  – Moustafa El-Zanaty led all scorers with 26 points but it was not enough as the visiting Bishop’s Gaiters gained a measure of revenge by sweeping ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ in Quebec University Basketball League action Friday in Montreal. In the opener, Bishop’s downed the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Martlets 50-38. The men completed the sweep with a come-from-behind 77-73 victory over the Redmen.

A 16-point, seven rebound performance from Cam Mowat of Kelowna, B.C., led the Bishop’s Gaiters to a 77-73 win over the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Redmen. Mowat scored 14 second-half points, as the Gaiters overcame a 34-33 halftime deficit to gain a split of their weekend series.

Bishop’s came out strongly, leading by as many as 10 points in the first quarter. However, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ answered the challenge, taking the lead early in the second quarter and pulling away to a seven-point lead with 7:28 left in the half. The Gaiters crept back to within one point at the interval.

The second half featured four tied scores and four lead changes in a tightly-contested affair. With the scored knotted at 40-40, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ went on an 8-0 run in 54 seconds, and threatened to run away with the game. However, a Bishop’s time out with 5:36 left in the quarter stopped ±«ÓãÖ±²¥â€™s momentum.  A jumper by Damon Thomas-Anderson of Verdun, Que., launched the Gaiters on a 12-3 run of their own, keyed by two big three-pointers from Mowat, as the Gaiters took a slim 52-51 lead with 2:31 left in the frame.

The lead changed hands several times in the next five minutes, before Hermon Tesfaghebriel’s layup gave the Gaiters the lead for good at 60-59 with 6:32 remaining. The Gaiters stretched their lead to as many as seven points with four mintes left, but ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ did not go away quietly.

A pair of free throws by El-Zanaty pulled the Redmen to within two at 71-69 with 21 seconds left, but the Gaiters sealed with win with clutch free-throw shooting from Thomas-Anderson and Mowat in the dying seconds.

For Bishop’s, Damon Thomas-Anderson scored a team-high 19 points, including 7-for-10 from the free-throw line, while Junior Nicolas of Montreal, Que., added 18 and Mowat scored 16.

For ±«ÓãÖ±²¥, Sean Anthony of Vancouver, B.C., contributed 15 points and Pawel Herra of Kingston, Ont., added a dozen more.

The Gaiters (4-6) are now alone in fourth place in the QUBL, one game up on ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ (3-7). The Redmen will host UQAM on Thursday, Jan. 29 in the first of a home-and-home series. The follow-up affair is slated for Saturday.

BU returns to action next week, with a series against the Laval Rouge et Or (5-3), starting Friday in Ste-Foy with the return match on Saturday night in Lennoxville.

Newspaper Box Score

(1/24/09 20h00 at Love Competition  Hall)

BISHOP’S GAITERS (M) 77, MCGILL REDMEN (M) 73


BISHOP’ (M)
D. Thomas-Anderson 6-8 7-10 19; Emmanuel Jr Nicolas 4-14 8-13 18; Cam Mowat
5-10 2-2 16; Tim Hunter 4-7 0-0 8; Darcy Nash 3-4 0-2 7; Hermon
Tesfaghebriel 2-4 1-4 5; Kevin Selman 1-5 0-0 2; Tim McAleenan 1-5 0-0 2;
Alex Genier 0-0 0-0 0; Donald Lindo 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 26-61 18-31 77.

MCGILL (M)
Moustafa El Zanaty 9-18 6-9 26; Sean Anthony 5-9 5-8 15; Pawel Herra 4-9 2-2
12; Michael White 3-6 0-0 6; Matthew Thornhill 3-15 0-0 6; Jesse Woods 3-5
0-0 6; Greg Gause 1-3 0-0 2; Erik Galas 0-1 0-0 0; Sebastien Gatti 0-0 0-0
0; Jeff Cumming 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-66 13-19 73.

Bishop’s (M)..........   15   18   21   23  -   77
±«ÓãÖ±²¥ (M).............   14   20   21   18  -   73

3-point goals--Bishop’s Gaiters (M) 7-25 (Cam Mowat 4-6; Emmanuel Jr Nicolas
2-7; Darcy Nash 1-1; Kevin Selman 0-1; Tim McAleenan 0-2; Donald Lindo 0-4;
Tim Hunter 0-3; D. Thomas-Anderson 0-1), ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Redmen (M) 4-20 (Moustafa El
Zanaty 2-6; Pawel Herra 2-6; Matthew Thornhill 0-7; Sean Anthony 0-1).
Fouled out--Bishop’s Gaiters (M)-Donald Lindo, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Redmen (M)-Michael
White. Rebounds--Bishop’s Gaiters (M) 34 (Tim Hunter 8), ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Redmen (M)
38 (Sean Anthony 10; Michael White 10). Assists--Bishop’s Gaiters (M) 12
(Darcy Nash 3), ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Redmen (M) 14 (Sean Anthony 5). Total fouls--Bishop’s
Gaiters (M) 23, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Redmen (M) 27. Technical fouls--Bishop’s Gaiters
(M)-None, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Redmen (M)-None.